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Moral Absolutes and the Divine Command

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Divine legislation functions to enforce moral absolutes, not to ground them.
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Monetary Possibilities for a Post-Euro Europe

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The eurozone’s current crisis is an opportunity for Europe to explore new monetary options that challenge the hitherto dominant vision of the European Union’s economic future.
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The Most Important Religious Liberty Case of the Past Thirty Years

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Freedom of religion means the right of religious persons, groups, and ideas to participate fully and equally in the life of the community and in the marketplace of ideas.
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The Costs of Taking Conscience

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ABOG) are restricting opportunities for health-care professionals to object to abortion and contraception on grounds of conscience. This will accelerate the growing problem of physician shortage.
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Can America Overcome Race?

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In Randall Kennedy’s new book on the dimensions of race in American politics, Kennedy abandons his usual level-headed analysis for a partisan, and misguided, look at American progressivism and conservatism.
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Protest and Reason

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In order to stop our present decline, we must transcend our natural tendency to retreat into factions and instead begin to sacrifice for the common good.
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Mandating Our Religious Freedom

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People of faith must reclaim their religious freedom, granted by the Creator and protected by the Constitution.
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The Reckless, Profitable Elimination of Down Syndrome

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A new Down syndrome test raises important questions.
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Nicholas Kristof and Toddlers: When You Really Need a Fact Checker

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Think overpopulation, poverty, climate change, and abortion can all be solved by more birth control? Think again.
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Terms of Moral Intervention: The Perils of Power and Profit

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Where unjust political regimes have been destroyed, a power vacuum enables corruption and undermines the state’s security. To prevent corrupting forces from abusing the state’s vulnerability in its transition period, intervening powers should enable strong law enforcement systems.
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Tenure Bedevils the University

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The tenure system sustains many of the problems in contemporary higher ed.
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Private Property and Human Flourishing

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Private property should be preserved and protected because of its deep contribution to human well-being.
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Healthcare, Conscience, and Religious Liberty: A Response to Linda Greenhouse

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New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse refuses to see the truth about contraception, conscience, and religious liberty.
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Promised Objectivity: Americans Receive Planned Parenthood Ideology

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The HHS mandate on contraception is based on insufficient research and betrays the committee’s deep pro-contraceptive bias.
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Global Warming, Evolution, and Presidential Politics: The Long Shadow of Galileo

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Judging from the media’s response to Rick Perry’s Galileo reference in the Reagan debate, our discourse is still governed by the modern view that science and religion can only clash.
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Assisted Suicide: The Forgotten Front in the Fight for Life

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As the proponents of assisted suicide strive to legalize it in Massachusetts, we should take another look at their arguments and the deceptions therein.
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Memorializing September 11th

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What makes September 11th worthy of public memorializing is that it was not only an event in the lives of these individuals and their families; it was an event in the life of the American nation, an attack aimed at the American nation.
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A New Kind of Presidential Debate

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Monday's Presidential Forum broke new ground.
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Targeting Down Syndrome by Regulation

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Prenatal testing for Down syndrome should not be considered preventive medicine. Such tests cannot prevent the presence of Down syndrome in a child; but they can decrease the likelihood of a child with Down syndrome surviving beyond the womb. Expectant parents need accurate information, including the many positive outcomes, about life raising a child with Down syndrome.
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End Child Pornography: Enforce Adult Pornography Laws

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Ending child pornography is as much a matter of vigorously prosecuting those who distribute adult pornography as it is a matter of prosecuting child pornographers. Presidential candidates should pledge to initiate adult pornography criminal cases and fund research into the adult-child pornography link.
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Empower Parents: Restore the Constitution by Returning Educational Policy to the States

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Presidential candidates in the 2012 election must be prepared to protect the interests of parents and children nationwide by rolling back the progressive education agenda and returning to the states their constitutional power to make decisions about education.
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Protect the Weak and Vulnerable: The Primacy of the Life Issue

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Public officials—especially the President—are obligated to protect the intrinsic equal dignity of all human beings, regardless not only of sex and race, but also without regard to age, size, condition of dependency, vulnerability, or the esteem of others. Abortion and embryo-destructive research are profound and lethal violations of this principle of equality to which the law (and the President) must respond.
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Sex Ed Mandates and Children’s Innocence

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New York’s new sex education mandate excludes abstinence-only options and forces all city school children to learn about “safe sex” in the sixth and seventh grades.
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Perry, Prayer, and Politics

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Rick Perry’s prayer rally engendered accusations that he wrongly crossed the church-state divide. But great leaders in American history have long held that religion is a necessary basis for public morality.
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